Jim
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@Myshkin08 @michaelshermer Absolutely, Canadians are much more woke than Americans. Trump could never get elected here because he demonizes Jews and other minorities. We value education and intelligence. The average Canadian IQ is several points higher. We don't vote for felons or pedophiles.
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I thought it was the beginning of the end of wokeness but I now think the rot at the core of leftist/Progressive politics and culture is so deep it may take decades to end. All in the name of liberalism, which is actually liberalism.
Gerald Posner@geraldposner
Cole Allen’s manifesto from the WHCA Dinner shooting is a textbook case of radicalization by extremist rhetoric. He didn’t invent this language—he echoed it. Direct from his manifesto: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” He calls Trump admin officials “targets,” says attendees are “complicit,” and rejects “turn the other cheek” because it would make him “complicit in the oppressor’s crimes.” He justifies violence against the “oppressed” (detention camps, executions, abused children) while minimizing collateral damage. This isn’t original. It’s straight from far-left playbooks 2016–2026: “Rapist”: After the 2023 E. Jean Carroll verdict (civil liability for sexual abuse), progressives and Democrats repeatedly called Trump a “rapist” as fact. AOC explicitly labeled him a “rapist” in an Epstein-files rant. Countless left voices: “Donald Trump is a rapist—it’s a fact, not an argument.” “Pedophile” / Epstein ties: Rep. Ilhan Omar: “The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.” House Oversight Democrats pushed Epstein docs/photos to attack Trump. Social media and left activists amplified “Trump is a pedophile” relentlessly. “Traitor”: Standard far-left line post-Jan. 6 and impeachment. Protests, signs, and commentary called him “Traitor Trump” or a traitor to democracy/America. It was mainstream progressive framing for years. “Complicit” / “blood on his hands” / oppressor language: Progressive mantra since BLM/anti-Trump era: “Silence is complicity” and “Silence is violence.” Left repeatedly said Trump had “blood on his hands” (COVID, Jan. 6, border, etc.). Allen’s “coat my hands with his crimes” + “complicit” for mere attendance is identical framing—oppressor/oppressed binary straight from critical theory/social justice rhetoric. Twisting Christianity: Allen's rebuttal to “turn the other cheek” (“when someone else is oppressed… it is complicity”) mirrors progressive Christian/left arguments that non-resistance to “systemic oppression” makes you an oppressor. Allen was a teacher who thanked “acquaintances… online” for “perspectives and inspiration.” He didn’t radicalize in a vacuum. This manifesto is the logical endpoint of years of “pedophile, rapist, traitor + complicit enablers” rhetoric from the far left and progressives. Rhetoric has consequences. When you mainstream “he’s literally Hitler/rapist/pedophile/traitor and silence makes you complicit,” some people stop debating and start acting. Allen is the proof. #RhetoricMatters #PoliticalViolence
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@D_Preacher_1 Did he have to? Or, did he want to know why Adam was hiding, when Adam had never done that before.
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God watches 8.3 billion people at once, knows every heart, every thought.
But in a garden with only 2 humans, he had to ask Adam, “Where are you?”
Interesting. 🧐
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It's a little bit of both. The high is what provides some relief, physically.
STONERS R US 🍃@_StonersRUs_
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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this guy 👇
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If humans suddenly lost the ability to lie, which industry would collapse first?
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Well, with due respect returned, it is in fact an implied claim. You did not say 'God kills children', you implied it when you said: 'it's the repeated killing of children.'
In any case, neither of the verses you mention say that God killed children. In the first, God simply states that the child will die, which can be seen as a consequence of David's action. And in the second, the prophet places a curse (so the prophet is the killer) and then the bears do the actual killing. In neither case does God appear, and kill children. But I'm not interested in meta conversation.
In any case, you seem somewhat incapable of engaging in hypotheticals. I did not say anything 'works for me', I simply presentaed a scenario to consider.
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With due respect, this is not an "implied claim" at all
2 Sam 12:18 and 2 Kings 23-24 both show specific examples of children dying by God's hand
"What is particularly bad about an early death?" you ask
I've known mothers that have gone through it and they've told me it never heals
Happy this works for you though
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False dichotomy. Religion offers a way of seeing, a path.
𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗@LucifersTweetz
Religion doesn't teach morality; it instills fear of punishment.
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Leaving aside the implied claim that God kills children, granting it for the sake of conversation, consider this:
Many people feel that if a child dies, their spirit/ soul, goes immediately to heaven. With this framework, what is particularly bad about an early death?
The focus here, is eternal life, in an incorruptible heavenly body, not a limited physical life.
Since we all must die, and life offers much suffering, haven’t such children sort of jumped the que, avoiding much of life's suffering?
Also, what if the situation is such, that they can sort of opt back in- a do over so to speak?
It's not written anywhere, but lots of things are unwritten. Perhaps glorification, which could be said to be the goal of Christianity, takes many lifetimes.
I see nothing that precludes this being a possibility.
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@Myshkin08 @theerealtao For me, it's the repeated killing of children
Even if I could believe that God existed, I can't make my peace with that
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